Pack mules from Tibet standing on open space above Gangtok market. They are unladen, but the pack-saddles can be seen on them. They are tied to yak-hair ropes pegged along the ground. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Subjects = animals; Bell Collection; mules; pack animals
Tibetans in Rong-nye Valley, ten miles below Gangtok. They are sitting and eating inside walls of wool which they have brought from Tibet over the Na-tu La, and are taking to Kalimpong. Small dog in foreground. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = Bell Collection; textiles; wool
Tibetans in Rong-nye Valley, ten miles below Gangtok. They are sitting and eating inside walls of wool which they have brought from Tibet over the Na-tu La, and are taking to Kalimpong. Small dog in foreground. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Similar to print 20a. Subjects = Bell Collection; textiles; wool
Limbus sitting with their baskets of oranges half-a-mile above Rangpo by the motor road. They are staying there in the open during the night. They have come from Nepal to carry oranges during the winter. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Old Tibetan beggar woman travelling alone. In the basket on her back she carries a miscellany of old things, including an ancient cooking-pot, inside an under-sized rug made of yak hair. In her left hand she carries a bundle of radishes. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Small, square format print. Subjects = beggars; Bell Collection; travelling
On the 'Clear Pass' (Tang La). Palhese in front; behind him our ponies, grooms and Cham-pa. Two cairns are showing, these mark the summit of the pass. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Group of travellers with their ponies in the pass. Subjects = Bell Collection; travelling Location = Tang La; Tibet